October 2014 "Teen Mom" Promotes Teen Pregnancy Reality television often has the tendency to present an unrealistic view towards issues regarding real life situations. Teen pregnancy is one of the most misleading topics presented on reality television. Tabloids feed off of the shows’ popularity by plastering the pictures of the teens on magazines and online‚ making them seem more appealing. Teen pregnancy as presented on reality television shows is irresponsible‚ dangerous and misleading by promoting
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the essay "Television: The Plug-In Drug" by Marie Winn‚ the author explains how television separates people from each other. Television‚ she claims‚ replaces the human contact by keeping the television viewers interested in the television programming instead of having a human companion. In the essay "Dearly Disconnected" by Ian Frazier‚ the author describes the cell phone as an object that will take out the payphones‚ increase human contact and decrease privacy. For example‚ televisions and cell
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Children and TV Professor: Dr. Germain Course Title: ENG090035VA016-1116-001 (Writing Fundamentals) 08/22/2011 Children and TV Watching Every child loves to spend countless hours in front of the TV watching cartoons‚ and various TV programs. What a lot of parents don’t realize is that although watching TV keeps a child occupied and quiet‚ long periods of TV watching can be harmful to the child in three major ways I would like to discuss. Children that spend hours in front of a TV are
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To begin with‚ Nick Serpe’s article‚ “Reality Pawns: The New Money TV‚” criticizes reality TV‚ which targets the lower class‚ and broadcasts the show so people can use it as a form of entertainment. Serpe describes‚ “Tom is going to repo her car‚ but if she can answer three of five trivia question right‚ the car will be hers‚” (Serpe 268). By this statement‚ it demonstrates that the‚ trivia question‚ determines if a person will get their own property back. This means that these games are not really
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some ways reality TV is dumbing us down. Reality TV is kind of dumbing down television as a whole. Networks have learned that‚ because actors demand such high salaries and production costs are high‚ it’s actually cheaper to do reality television‚ where the contestants pretty much work for free. We also see unrealistic behavior (like the housewives-of-anywhere)‚ and people like to emulate some of the behavior they see on TV. Reality television does more harm than good. Reality television is not good
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The revolution of science has brought a new technology known as television where television program is a common word. In human society‚ what are the uses of television or the roles of television program is a matter to discuss‚ but in this term there are two key words like entertainment and education. So the aim of this discussion is to demonstrate the uses and effects of TV programs in society and this discussion is sectioned with some structures as follows. The first section presents an analysis
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Most parents I know worry about how much television their children are watching‚ but I see very little being done about actually cutting down their children’s television time. The average child watches three to four hours of T. V. a day and another two and a half hours more on the television watching movies or playing video games‚ for a total of six and a half hours of television a day. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics‚ a little more than half of our children have a T. V. in their
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REALITY STARS VS HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS When most people watch reality shows they talk about how immature they are. How they don’t have more aspirations but to continue doing series of reality shows. How they just think about that doing immature things like drinking too much‚ partying all the time‚ and fighting with others for no reason to be the center of attention. Well most teens in high school think people like this are people they should look up to‚ and think that it is a way they should be
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The Impact of too much Watching Television Shows on Teenagers “Media ’s the most powerful entity on earth" (Malcolm X). Media is capable to control facts. It influences anyone ’s point of view. There are different types of media like print media‚ new age media and electronic media etc. electronic and new age mediums are famously used by teens these days. Tablets‚ iPods‚ laptops‚ iPhones are some latest gadgets that teenagers use but television is one medium that teens cannot eradicate on their
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It’s Time for a Reality Check One might ask‚ how often do I watch Reality TV? I would say that most people would find themselves watching at least a few hours of TV a week. Cynthia Frisby has made it clear in her article “Getting Real with Reality TV” that people enjoy and in some cases plan their lives around reality TV. Being the associate professor of advertising at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and co-editor of Journalism Across Cultures‚ Ms. Frisby has clearly shown her establishment
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